Ancient Forest Friendly Tissue Products – USA
Toilet Paper: CVS Bathroom Tissue 1000, Cascades, Marcal,
Natural Value, Earth First, Seventh Generation, Trader Joe’s, 365 Everyday Value
Facial Tissue: Marcal Fluff Out, Seventh Generation, Trader Joe’s
Paper Towels: Marcal Bella, Natural Value, Seventh Generation, Trader Joe’s,
365 Everyday Value
(and I am especially talking to you, koreanhalfling, since you are, in fact, hugging a tree in your xanga profile pic)
FUN
Had a packed weekend!
Hung out with foreign friends; packed some stuff for a friend who has moved to another -stan; ate yummy lunch at the hotel proudly adorned with pics of Hugo Chavez, Stalin, Castro, and Bush as a terrorist (and then a pic of Orlando Bloom downstairs by the bathroom); made Korean food and ate it with a non-Korean; went to an “everyone-bring-your-own-mixed-drink” party; talked with Germans and Danes who spoke flawless English albeit with accents; almost got tricked (April Fools!); had a good long talk with roommate; met up with some other foreign friends; celebrated S’s birthday at a Korean restaurant where half of us spoke Korean; half of us Italian… some of us Russian.. some of us English…
RANT
WHEW! On top of it all, decided to stop using Kleenex when I get back to the States… (see www.kleercut.net for more info)… I used to be such a better environmentalist (God said we should RULE over the earth, not ABUSE it)… to the point where I didn’t flush everytime I used the toilet; broke a few toilets in my house because I put bricks (REAL bricks, not the kind you’re thinking about) in order to make the water level artificially higher and therefore help the toilet use less water when flushing…stopped using aerosol things…handed in my homework on the back of debate briefs (to save paper)… then I went through the “humans are more important than the environment” stage UNTIL I read a book about how environmental problems disproportionately affect the poor…
It’s difficult because so many of the environmentally-friendly or socially conscious products are EXPENSIVE! So it’s about making choices – and I’m glad for things like this “kleercut” campaign that ed-u-mu-cate me (thanks to mike2cents for showing this on his xanga)… ’cause that’s an easy choice to make – stop buying Kleenex tissues and buy, instead, paper products that are made with recycled paper… or buy fair-trade coffee… or don’t eat veal …
Also, being abroad in a developing country has helped — I will reuse Ziploc bags (a necessity here since we can’t really buy them here); save or reduce the use of disposable plastic containers; support my local farmer’s market; and make more things from scratch.
On the other hand, I still care more for HUMANS than ANIMALS (and therefore will continue to gladly consume meat for now); will not buy into the whole “organic” everything (but do like the idea of free-range eggs & chickens); and realize that I might still have to sometimes purchase things that are made in sweatshops…
What about you? What are your pet causes?
